The 25-storey Doreen Tower in a capital’s Gulshan has been built though tallness clearance, a compulsory automobile fool around ground as good as critical glow reserve facilities, with Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) personification an irregular role.
The high climb during Gulshan-2 devious will wear a trade disharmony in an already congested blurb area. The intensely singular automobile fool around ground of a make up will meant which vehicles belonging to a tenants as good as visitors will be parked upon a street, occupying most of a space there, clogging a trade in all directions as a Doreen Tower is upon a categorical intersection.
Traffic in a sum area already faces serious congestion, infrequently for hours.
Under a conditions of a Building Construction Rules of 1996, any make up 10 storeys or aloft contingency keep open space as follows: 10 feet during a back, 8.4 feet upon a twin sides as good as 5 feet in a front.
But, as this compare found during a latest revisit to a site, a owners of a Doreen Tower has left no open space. As per records, a sum land area of a tract is 6,051 block feet whilst a built-up make up area is 6,052 block feet.
ASM Ismail, a arch supervision architect, pronounced underneath a 1996 manners such a high make up could in no approach be authorized in Gulshan area.
“Leaving no reversal [open space] is a sum defilement of rules,” pronounced Ismail, who formerly served during Rajuk as an certified military military officer for make up approval.
Survey of Bangladesh, a inhabitant contemplating as good as mapping agency, in a inform twin years ago listed Doreen Tower as a single of a “highly risky” buildings for air operations. Its tallness is some-more than stand in a slight 150 feet.
The taller a make up is, some-more difficult is a correspondence with a glow safety, set behind rule, tallness limitation as good as automobile fool around ground space.
Consequences of such deviations in box of a 25-storey make up have been most times some-more dangerous than what it is in box of a six-storey building.
Rajuk, a management obliged for overseeing growth as good as determining make up a whole in a city, authorized a devise in Jan 1998 nonetheless Doreen Tower did not have a compulsory open space as good as a tallness clearway as good as glow chapter clearance, all of which have been imperative for such high-rise constructions.
As per a make up law, Rajuk contingency safeguard which developers imitate with those imperative prerequisites.
Completed final year, Doreen Tower is set to open for blurb operate soon, association officials have said.
All by a decade in which a make up came up, Rajuk inexplicably looked a alternative approach as such sum violations of make up a whole manners occurred.
Rajuk Chairman Nurul Huda told that final month which he would beginner an review in to how a capitulation of a make up devise went through.
Asked since Rajuk had not addressed these concerns whilst a make up a whole was starting on, he said, “I cannot contend which though starting by a files.” He afterwards left for Hajj.
Doreen Tower has parking arrangements for a small 40 vehicles in a groundwork opposite parking order for scarcely 140 vehicles.
As per rules, a blurb make up similar to Doreen Tower contingency yield for a 248-square-foot automobile fool around ground for any 2,153-square-foot make up space.
The make up lacks fire-protected puncture dedicated shun route, together with staircase, glow fighting lift as good as fire-protected preserve space to promote protected exit in a eventuality of an emergency. This is imperative underneath a National Building Code.
The owners performed a subject to clearway from a glow use chapter final year, whilst equipment of simple glow reserve facilities similar to warning bells, sprinklers, glow extinguishers as good as hose reels have been still starting on.
Fire use laws contend any make up upon top of 6 storeys contingency acquire prior to clearway from a glow chapter as good as glow fighting complement should be commissioned during a time of construction.
On giving clearway after execution of a construction, Zohurul Amin Mian, partner executive of Fire Service as good as Civil Defence, pronounced they did so meditative which a make up was underneath construction.
Contacted for comments, Tanzeer Alam Siddique, handling executive of Doreen Tower, responded to this paper’s queries upon Nov 1.
He pronounced Rajuk had authorized a devise a approach it had been submitted.
“It was Rajuk’s avocation to safeguard if a manners were being followed,” pronounced Tanzeer, son of Noor-e-Alam Siddique, a make up owner.
Noor-e-Alam is a former tyro personality as good as politician. He avoided responding a subject since a plan, blatantly violating set behind manners as good as tallness restrictions, was submitted to Rajuk in a primary place.
On not gripping a compulsory room for parking, Tanzeer Alam pronounced a trade incident had not been as bad a decade ago, when make up a whole of a make up began, as it is today. When forked out which specific manners about parking were in reason up then, he remained silent.
Tanzeer, however, pronounced a accountability would be “compensated” by arranging a automobile fool around ground in an a single some-more building, which is about 500 yards divided from Doreen Tower. Rules do not assent such an arrangement.
The “so called alternative building” is a six-storey blurb make up with a slight entrance surrounded by residential plots. Much of a space for 64 automobile parks is compulsory for a own tenants.
While his hermit Tahzeeb Alam Siddique pronounced a organisation would modify a single of a twin staircases in to an puncture exit, Tanzeer claimed it had already been done.
On Oct 17, 4 Doreen Tower officials, together with a ubiquitous manager, an electrical operative as good as a former Rajuk engineer, sat with this compare during a make up to insist their position.
All of them spoke upon condition of anonymity.
“The Rajuk officials who authorized a devise have been obliged for a anomalies,” pronounced a ex-Rajuk engineer, who is an confidant of a project.
The ubiquitous physical education instructor said, “We do not know since a owners did not imitate with a make up rules.
